Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quirky Evaluations. His evaluation of virtuoso performers is no less quirky. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz's "unvarying, mannered manipulation of melodic phrase [with] infinite gradations of tone is his one way of operating with every composer." On the other hand, Pianist Van Cliburn, who has taken some critical lumps in recent years, displays "disciplined mastery" and an "unfailing sense for note-to-note continuity of tone, tension and outline...
...Laredos' Bach was in the best Rosalyn Tureck tradition. Eschewing the harpsichord for the piano, Mrs. Laredo played lid up and with plenty of pedal. As a pianist myself I have nothing against treating the instrument as a full partner in chamber music rather than a subservient accompanist--in fact I welcome it. But the Laredos' Bach did have severe balance problems. Mr. Laredo very quickly demonstrated a full, rich tone and an easy command of dynamics on the violin. But he was more and more obliged to "force" in an attempt to hold his own against the superior string...
...first" for academically oriented Harvard. This spring he gave a solo piano recital as part of the ceremonies celebrating the newly refurbished Lehman Hall part of Dudley House. Now he is back again to lead the chamber music seminar and to serve as the Summer School's resident pianist. Monday night, wasting no time, he inaugurated this season's concert series at Sanders Theatre...
Shure is a pianist who likes his music meaty. At this Dudley House recital he cose to assault two of the most awesome pinnacles of the piano literature, the Schubert Sonata in Bb, Op. posthumous, and the Variations on a Theme of Diabelli by Beethoven. Reaction was mixed and tended to the extremes, but there was general admiration for the sheer endurance feat of getting through all those notes...
...this work he exhibited the acute but sensitively analytical mind for which he is noted among musicians. Every detail of the composition's intricate structure had been thought out with the utmost care. Shure employed a range of dynamics and special colorings that would be the envy of any pianist. While at times they produced a rather exaggerated effect, their use had obviously been meticulously planned way ahead of time. The last movement was magnificent in spite of several slips of memory...